Category: iOS

Introduction

App Store has millions of apps and they are growing in number. Apple paid a total of 100 billion U.S. dollars to iOS app developers. It’s a large market with a large number of users and App developers. If this gives you motivation to upload your app to the App Store, tag along and we will give some valuable tips and tricks to pass through the App Store review process.

Introduction

We all might have gone through a situation at some point in Apple’s review process, where our app consistently gets rejected. You would have also thought that it is difficult to get approval for new apps. But it is very simple to get the approval if we abide by the review guidelines.

We have been in your shoes with the review process. With the experience we’ve gained over time on Apple’s review process, we’ve cracked the key to get an app reviewed and approved for listing in the Apple App Store. Compiled are the list of things you can do to reduce the review time, which have helped us immensely for the successful approval of our apps in a single go.

Introduction

Most of the UI controls are usually provided by Apple while developing an app. Depending up on the requirements, it is common to change the default behavior and design of a UI control to create an app with uniform look and feel.

It is not only tedious but a bad practice to design/alter each control separately. Moreover, the process of altering each control not only time-consuming and cost-intensive but often prone to human error which could cause all sorts of compatibility problems with any other interdependent apps or systems.

Developing a responsive website that works well across various browsers and devices is tough. The difficulty is compounded by the fact that browser vendors keep adding distinct behaviors to improve user experience. We recently faced an issue with the auto zoom-in feature in Safari on iOS.

1. Introduction

Apple Push Notification service (APNs), which was launched with iOS 3.0 on June 17, 2009, facilitates sending small sized information to mobile devices remotely. Such information is called a notification and can include:

Badge

Sound

Custom title text alerts

Payload

However, delivery of the messages to the intended devices is not guaranteed even though the APN server has accepted the messages. One must pay attention to the below constraints while sending a message:

Introduction

Bluetooth Low Energy or BLE has become very popular now a days as it is widely used in personal fitness gadgets, home automation products etc. Although BLE is similar to classic Bluetooth, its power consumption is less. Almost all major operating systems natively support BLE such as iOS 5 and later, Windows Phone 8.1, Android 4.3 and later, BlackBerry 10.